The Strategy of Eurasianism

[@CaspianReport]

Well done on the topic. Lots of fine details. In the context of modern geopolitics, Eurasianism is once again gaining ground in Russia. Btw, would you be interested in working together? I have a channel that focuses on geopolitics and I think your work is invaluable.

[@Senshidayo]

This would be amazing! BTW Shirvan, are you guys looking for help with research on Asia?

[@wheresmyeyebrow1608]

Eeeey, CaspianReport

[@StrategyStuff]

Hey, I'm a great fan of your videos too. It would be great to discuss working together but I don't seem to have a way of contacting you. Guess it's time for me to make a Facebook page...

[@apoptosine1598]

Caspian Report + Strategy Stuff! That's like a dream come true!

[@Bayomeer]

*Top 10 Anime Crossovers*

[@altaykabukcu551]

You apologize for "amateurish production values" in the description, but I'm always enthralled by your research and explanations. The format is also very clear, making it enjoyable. Thank you for the effort you put in.

[@keithchiang9770]

Agreed. Fancy production work is icing on the cake if anything. What I'm looking for clear information, presented concisely. Excellent work Strategy Stuff!

[@jasonreed7522]

I haven't seen many of his videos but they feel exactly like what a typical college lecture would be. So content wise top notch and production value at clear but not necessarily flashy.

[@platoscavealum902]

👍

[@BenDonahower]

This needs to make the rounds. Understanding Eurasianism is key to understanding the present conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

[@pm71241]

Yes ... but it's really just postmodern Russian fascism. It does exactly the same thing as Hitlers fascism (just without the race-hatred against jews). I builds a similar mythological fantasy world, abolishes reason and truth, worships the autocrat, requires "lebensraum" and elevates it self above any weaker neighbors, claiming to be one of a select group of "poles" in the world which can indiscriminately dictate to everyone in the sphere of influence. (I suspect the only reason Dugin doesn't try to elevate Russia over China and India and other of his "poles" is because he can't do anything about them anyway.) It's fascism... plain and simple. And this time it has got to be stopped before it takes the whole world down.

[@eddyfong6486]

Spot on - there are not many contemporary commentators that see the well published desires of Russo-Fascists like Aleksandre Dugin - modern day inner circle strategists - that have Putin's ear.

[@thomaskalbfus2005]

People can rationalize any act of evil, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is just plain murder with no justification at all!

[@KittyCatMeowMeowTime]

I was going to say something similar. My understanding is that there is a majority in Ukraine that want to be part of the west, but Putin will have none of it. The idea discussed in this video brings some understanding as to why.

[@ieronymos9265]

@@KittyCatMeowMeowTime Correction, bub: the majority of WESTERN Ukraine want to be part of the West; the REST of the country will have none of it.

[@np4653]

Russia as a Slavic country was always more "European"* than it was "Asian". Like Greece, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria etc. it was part of the European East, which has encompassed countries/empires who's culture and identity was shaped by the Byzantine (East Roman empire). It became geographically Asian when it conquered vast portion of Asian continent, mainly the large plains. That was the part of grand strategy of Russian rulers, to secure and protect eastern borders from possible invasion, and thus to create a powerful empire. The only way to achieve that goal was to go as far east as you can go, and to the south east until you come to the natural obstacles like mountain ranges, that would stop possible invaders. This is exactly what Russia did, so the only possible way to invade country was from the western part of the border. That's also what many tried to do: Teuton knights, Poles, Sweden, Napoleon, Hitler; and all failed because of Russian estern back up strategy. This was the reason why Russia so desperately wanted to move their border as close to Mediterranean as it was possible, and to create more buffer or puppets states to protect itself from a possible invasion from other European empires. Euroasianism is nothing more than a strategy to perserve and gain more power to Russia, like Euroatlanticism is a British and later American grand strategy to expand to the East and to West and to create a powerful naval empire. Also it was a good way for Russia to make a connection with Eastern nations it once conquered. * I don't think that there is a single European indentity. There are many different European identities and cultures, and there were even more before the creation of modern nation states which have homogenized the European continent. They differ among each other but share similar origins and culture and have their roots in ancient hellenistic mediterranean (Greco-Roman) culture.

[@kerimozdemir4009]

to be honest slavs are not european europa ends where orthodoxs start its just western empire

[@Porkeater2610957]

@@kerimozdemir4009 Some Slavs are Protestant and Catholic. So Europe ends where Germany ends.

[@FlymanMS]

That's a stupid thing to say. Europe as a continent ends at Ural Mountains on the east and Asia Minor on the south.

[@kerimozdemir4009]

@@FlymanMS well news to you europa is not a continent

[@kerimozdemir4009]

@@Porkeater2610957 but what about slovenia they are culturally west orianted catholic but they are slavic

[@MelangeThief]

This is the exact kind of sober and honest laying out of ideas I needed to get a good grasp on Eurasianism. I rarely bother with doing anything beyond hitting the subscribe button, but I have made an exception for you, not only hitting the like button but also leaving a comment. I assure you that from me, this is very high praise indeed. Take it as an indicator both of how badly I needed to see a video like this and of how thoroughly you have satisfied that need.

[@platoscavealum902]

👍

[@wayneha]

This is a timely piece, giving context to the discussion recently sparked by Dugin, Snyder (on Ilyan), Kotkin, Pomerantsev, and many others. Thank you.

[@eddyfong6486]

In 2022, Dugin's work is particularly profound as a sort of neo-fascist Rasputin in Putin's ear, encouraging the disastrous invasion of Ukraine.

[@misterrea861]

Thank you for summarizing such a complex web of ideas, identities, and ideologies. I really appreciate the insight and clarity you bring to these topics, even if Francis Fukuyama probably hates you.

[@BigHenFor]

Francis Fukayama hates his former over-optimistic grand narrative now too.

[@faquarldesreutes8429]

I've just stumbled into your video and I find it incredibly well vulgarised, clear and synthesised. I subscribe immediately to your channel !

[@platoscavealum902]

same

[@transkryption]

Reminded how much I loved your videos in light of current events. Thanks for your efforts!

[@BekeroParyin]

I'm really glad to see this channel finally getting the recognition it deserves. Quality stuff like always

[@HenriksenDolf]

Thank you so much. We need to share this video. It is very helpful to understand the current situation.

[@platoscavealum902]

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[@kerimozdemir4009]

Soviet Union 2 : Electric Boogaloo

[@Apodeipnon]

This time with less communism and more oligarchy! Yay.

[@kerimozdemir4009]

@@Apodeipnon let me ptotect you from lgbt feminist vegans comrade (well to be honest im ok with it)

[@raitiC1]

@@kerimozdemir4009 You think there are no feminists and vegans in Russia? :D:D:D:D:D::D

[@kerimozdemir4009]

@@raitiC1 there will be none out of gulag when they done with them :D

[@kerimozdemir4009]

@ how funny you are comrade there is no food in gulag and no shortage of food too of course because there was never ever were a shortage of food in our glorious rodina capitalists will die out of hunger praise be stalin

[@Dagreatdudeman]

TL:DR it's a justification for Russian Empire/Soviet Union

[@boshengjones1778]

And you are ignoring the spread of arabic language over ancient middle east and north africa, the spread of turkic language over central asia and anatolia. Both cases demonstrate people of very different background finding needs of commercial integration and use of lingua franca. And lets not forget the greatest one of them all, the theoretic proto indo-european people. None of these led to long term unfied empire.

[@FlymanMS]

More like a justification for new Eurasian Empier/Union. Armchair geopoliticizm tbh.

[@petersmythe6462]

As if those things were the same..

[@lizardperson9648]

How can there be a justification for something that had existed?

[@planets9102]

than how does this justify the owning the baltic and parts of Poland

[@Synochra]

Last time I was this early, a juvenile Dugin was having issues with his oppressive dad.

[@michaelmizharev785]

SycheRyder who punished him severely

[@blueberry1874]

last time i was this early he was making extremist parties with pedophiles

[@georgiishmakov9588]

I have never before in my life seen such a convenient ideology to explain away all the necessities of Realpolitik. I am pretty convinced of this being a post-hoc explanation for policy.

[@balderbrok6438]

Eurasianism was thought upp by white emigres shortly after the revolution, by people who were critical of Sovjet (while anticipating that it would eventually transform into an eurasian empire). Eurasianist ideology can therefore not be thought of as a "post-hoc explanation" for the policy of post-sovjet russia, though the aims of eurasianism and the interests of Russia are naturally aligned.

[@fatdaddy1996]

Georgi, exactly! It's weak stuff.

[@dasher787]

This only makes sense if Eurasianism was new. Eurasianism has existed since before the soviet union.

[@Armorius2199]

You should do the Grand Strategy of Napoleon, cause what he planed was not what he ended up doing.

[@joey199412]

Thank you for making these videos. You're definitely one of the best Geopolitical analyzers on KZbin!

[@snowfrosty1]

The Devil's Advocate 100% without a doubt, found this channel's "Japan's Grand Strategy from 1919-1941" in my recommendations mid-July and have been subscribed ever since.

[@pac1fic055]

Very well explained! Eurasianism looks like a thinly veiled Russian version of American exceptionalism and its spawn, the Monroe Doctrine.

[@YellowCakeRadio]

Thank you. This is important information to consider with what is going on now.

[@yttean98]

After Dugin's Fourth Political Theory this video is an adjunct to his ideas, well done. It needs to be viewed a few times cos it contains lots of info and your graphics illustrations make the concept, Eurasiamis easier to understand.

[@yttean98]

Watch this video again, well done. Is this strategy working? Oct 27, Both Iran & Turkey and already Syria move into the Russian orbit.

[@stoggafllik]

Eurasianism is gay and Eurasians are ugly mongoloids

[@caesaraugustus3749]

New to the channel but love the content! The kind of content I didn't know I needed until I found your channel and realized there is practically no equivalent on youtube

[@paulooliveira2930]

KZbin needs more content creators like you, man. Well-sourced, informative and not long-winded or narrow as a very specific lecture would be. A great starting point for studying the themes you present. One question for you or for whoever can give their 2 cents: the EEU, as it was planned (which, perhaps, it's not gearing up to be in practice), couldn't have been an honest Eurasian policy move? You mention the focus on bargaining power in a globalized world as something which completely opposes the Eurasianism ethos, which is correct. However maybe it could be seen as a way to break up the "Atlantic" system from within? Since I gather Dugin has been persistent on his "fifth column" of people who want to break Eurasia from within...

[@StrategyStuff]

If Russia straight out says EEU is a Eurasianist, then that would clearly put the project + Russian policy in general on a clearly anti Atlanticist route with all the consequences that result. That’s why Dugin claims that Putin is pursuing Eurasianism by stealth: justifying Eurasianist projects via non-Eurasianist values. So yes it’s possible that EEU is a Eurasianist project in liberal clothing.

[@haze154]

Yay you are back

[@Medievaltroubador]

Excellent analysis! Thank you for bringing this to light!

[@jd4501a]

Thank you for explaining The current war in Ukraine.

[@platoscavealum902]

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[@youtubeuser206]

the war isnt current. it started in 2014 when kiev launched a war against their own civilians who rejected the western backed overthrow of their elected president.

[@jd4501a]

@@youtubeuser206 Found the Russian propaganda bot. I hope you enjoy your brainwashing.

[@bub6871]

@@platoscavealum902 Russia will win and the Western crusade against Russia will fail just like Napoleon and Hitler. Ukraine is a Western puppet state controlled by fascists and Nazis, and if you knew anything about Ukraine and this war you'd already know that.

[@sovkinen]

​@@platoscavealum902🇧🇾🇷🇺

[@alecjones4135]

This video is why I subscribed. Great content. Highly underrated.

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[@MDFification1]

So "Masterocracy" is literally Absolutism 2.0 Fitting, as Eurasianism basically seeks to justify perpetual Russian dominance over its neighbours.

[@savulescteodor9333]

Thats true russian stole so much

[@sirlordhenrymortimer6620]

@@savulescteodor9333 what the stole?

[@XavierbTM1221]

Just like the Monroe Doctrine isn't it?

[@josephzanes7334]

Western Russians are white

[@Gaiafreak6969]

Love this video, it's so impartial and informative without being judgemental

[@JuanMatteoReal]

1:51 "Lev Gumilyov" TNO players: 👀

[@cgndnm]

bruh

[@burgundian_system]

Eurasia forever

[@Teimberar]

Exactly the motive I’ve watched the video

[@bruhgundy]

He was a man born into the world to shake the nations, the scourge of all lands, who in some way terrified all mankind by the dreadful rumors noised abroad cocnerning him."

[@Glebean]

Sadly very underrated video, I use it in my TA role for students who are curious to learn more. Great and extremely factual

[@mphRagnarok]

Thank you! You make wonderfully grounded videos. I do have a question though... The Eurasianism view of the West and the West's "strategy" of keeping the rest of the world off balance and always playing catch-up implies a very very long-term and well-coordinated plan. It almost sounds like the only person who can keep this strategy going is a leader who can live and rule for 300 years. So my question is: In the Eurasianism view, who is coordinating this grand Western strategy? Who is driving it? Who keeps it coherent and on-going?

[@StrategyStuff]

No coordination is needed, because according to Eurasianism, civilizations naturally act in a way that reflects their mestorazvitie (geog + history). So it is natural that the West will try and push its values onto others, just as it is equally natural that these values will never fit into a Eurasian/Arab/etc mestorazvitie. The only unnatural thing for the Eurasianists is that some get seduced by Western ideology, which sets this tragedy in motion.

[@skepticmonkey6923]

Its imperialism, its not a leader, its a system, read Lenin's "imperialism the highest stage of capitalism, Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" and "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", it traces its roots to Colonialism and the West has kept the same status quo to this day.

[@Sandra-pu5id]

Thank you for your channel and videos. I've found this information no-where else and it is sorely needed.

[@douglassauvageau7262]

This dissertation emphasizes ideologies over the basics of 'Food, Clothing, and Shelter'. The 'Silk-Road' and the 'Spice-Trade' were early precursors to global progress.

[@HappySnappyChappy]

This is a good presentation. Concise, succinct and insightful. The graphics accompany the pace of the narrative well. I found it informative and helpful. Thankyou.

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

It would be interesting to hear about the British policies in areas like Sudan where chieftains were given much of the control. Also I'd love to learn about the commonwealth pre-WW2 because it seemed like a very good way to maintain the empire while granting independence to the colonies through economic dependence on an industrialised great Britain compared to rural colonies (canada, south africa and australia) and trade centre hubs (Hong Kong, the suez and gibraltar). I'm very curious about the latter

[@StrategyStuff]

Yes, the interwar strategy of Britain is in this channel's future. Probably need to figure out whether to split it into global and European bits.

[@simonmurdoch1243]

Really excellent video, thanks. Thoughtful and balanced analysis.

[@bettycrocker6692]

Wow! what an overview of Eurasianist thinking!! It tells me everything I need to know about Putin's mindset and his fanatic need to co-opt Ukraine (read Kievan Rus), even at the expense of destroying it (along with a whackload of Russian military reserves). You Rock the Room, Stuff.

[@snakejumper3277]

That is why I'm watching & reading about this topic. Most westerners have no knowledge of this topic. Putin is seriously misunderstood. Understanding this topic could help resolve issues such as the Ukrainian war.

[@HelliarCOH]

Very well made. Thank you for this.

[@alLEDP]

I just realized how awesome those "geopolitcall strategy" etc. will become if we become a star fering civilization in the far future! Imagine the possibilities of alliances, strategy etc.!

[@Itsunobaka]

this video aged very well. good work

[@Apodeipnon]

This ideology seems to work back from it's conclusion, it exists only to justify Russian hegemony and expansionism. Oh you even say it at around 23:30! I certainly agree with that. Edit: it's been a few years so my mind has changed on this quite drastically. Still a great channel tho, that I haven't changed my mind about.

[@command_unit7792]

Sure...But fighting fire with fire is the concept used here...Russia tried not being an empire during the 90s and it got the european union and nato expanding into its former sphear of influence and union...

[@mausklick1635]

Of course they expanded into Russia's sphere of influence. Russia has very little to offer to the common people of those countries; only the oligarchy ever profits from Russian influence. It is also almost incapable of improving conditions in its own country, and if you belong to a minority or voice dissent, you'll just get fucked. Yes, Russia has improved a little under Putin in some areas, and got worse in others. I can't see how this Russia is any better than what a continued communist rule would have managed And yes, the west is stagnating, but at a much higher level. Its that level that other people want to reach, not Russia's. Almost all former Soviet republics on the European continent want to join the EU, not because of some geopolitical shenanigans, but because life over here is so much better.

[@FlymanMS]

@@command_unit7792 Russia didn't "try not being an empire" in the 90's, it was just a state in a crisis. But yeah, NATO led by US used the weakness and bought ex-Warsaw pact countries with promises just to install the rockets on their land and create more pressure on Russian border.

[@FlymanMS]

@@mausklick1635 Yet they are not viewed by EU major players as equals. I honestly wish for them to have their own thing instead of always falling under one's influence. But they seem to be rather poor at settling their differences and uniting for something good, shown well by Balkans.

[@savulescteodor9333]

@@command_unit7792 Russia took Basarabia from romanians its our land not yours you are just a bunch of expansionist thives

[@locky7347]

Man that videos was great, seeing the stuff you said about the Germanic/Roman European group is very insightful, I'm team Atlantic all the way

[@frederickhumphrey8942]

Can I give you money to do this more frequently?

[@Lyle-xc9pg]

this is bullshit

[@jamesduston9292]

@@Lyle-xc9pg how so?

[@frederickhumphrey8942]

@@Lyle-xc9pg I would happily give him up to a tenner per video for more of them.

[@StrategyStuff]

I appreciate the sentiment but it's usually less about the money and more the fact that there are only so many hours in a day. My reading speed is 1 academic book per day (c.300 pages), so research takes 1 - 2 weeks. Planning/writing takes another week and animation/recording about 3 - 4 days (I did the powerpoints etc at the beginning of this week and recorded 2 days ago). But try as I might to do these in a 4 week schedule, these get delayed by another week because of other work and general laziness.

[@frederickhumphrey8942]

@@StrategyStuff A respectful response, but nevertheless, what you are doing is genuinely some of the best educational work on KZbin in this area (you could be the only one, I haven't searched around much). So could we make a compromise with; take my money anyway through potentially patreon or something else?

[@josephwatson4292]

Best video on the internet right now explaining Russia’s POV. Not justifying yet but making it make sense.

[@gokce9521]

This feels like the soviet union with extra steps.

[@jakedee4117]

Or with extra steppes.

[@armeniansdoitbetter]

@@jakedee4117 nice one ha!

[@platoscavealum902]

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[@L_T31]

@@platoscavealum902 no

[@julianwright4813]

Thank you for an excellent background analysis that is so relevant to the current war in Ukraine.

[@Astrobaut]

Passion and Power shall prevail. Any TNO fellas here?

[@milotura6828]

Me why?

[@burgundian_system]

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[@petervatkov6450]

Great content, well studied and analyzed presented in concentrated form and very communicative. I would suggest adding the diagram of topography zones as reference for regions boundaries.

[@niceone550]

Very good idea

[@chippolina4430]

So basically "Our world dominance is better than your world dominance"

[@Jacob011]

Wow! This is a fascinating, cogent and informative summary.

[@Kibener1st]

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[@mcRydes]

really good summary of a complex, obscure subject.

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[@samburdge9948]

Hey chief think you can bump up the sound a tad...I have volume on the way up....two feet away from speaker, and pretty hard to hear you, thank you for your time and work

[@aznluvr7]

Man I love these videos, you need to make more! Also more volume, your voice quiet even with my speaker hoooked up!

[@VeryFamousActor]

Understanding this ideology will be extremely important now that Russia has fledged into the next stage of the development of a Eurasian Union with the invasion in Ukraine.

[@wilhelmu]

dugin never wanted to establish eurasian union. the video is misleading! Read up about him. Dugin is a self-proclaimed "true fascist"(unlike fake failed fascists in germany and italy). According to him, Russia is on the way to establish "genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism". He wants a russian empire that will stretch "from dublin to vladivostok". He openly called for invasion of ukraine as early as 2008, and in 2014 he said that ukrainian national identity must be completely eradicated and ukraine as well as all the russian speaking countries must be forcefully reintegrated into Russia. So much for eurasian self determination.

[@wilhelmu]

@Vinny Zigzag 비니 지그재그 according to dugin, it's a better nazism.

[@universalflamethrower6342]

It should not have to be this way, but then again Oedipus could also not have killed his father

[@ieronymos9265]

You mean an INTERVENTION; Russia didn’t “invade” shit. There is an 8 year war in the Ukraine prior to this. Look up the war on the Donbas.

[@wilhelmu]

@@ieronymos9265 I was born yesterday and I never ever heard of war in donbass. Is what you think?

[@Amalot]

Fantastic video, well informed and analysed. As a history student it is not often that I come across these theories which I find slightly odd, mostly event-based theories are popular in historiographic discussion at the moment, which is saddening.

[@Karlsewak-kempetai]

Russia-Ukraine war was just inevitable. Great Information. Could you suggest any book regarding this?

[@MaconMedia]

Read "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia" and "Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia" by Aleksandr Dugin. Search Google with the titles and add either PDF or EPUB. Z-Library also has both books, and many more. The Google article on Eurasianism also has lots of links and book titles in the footnotes.

[@Karlsewak-kempetai]

@@MaconMedia Thanks Bro,

[@nerd2544]

​@@MaconMediaz-library still alive? i thought the 🦅🦅 got them

[@MaconMedia]

It's still alive. @@nerd2544 I use their services nearly everyday in my data hoarding effort. LOL

[@tengia7927]

Now t inevitably at all.

[@josiahgerk8111]

Love your videos it's a nice change for people to post strategy videos and the like

[@thrashes6208]

I don't know if you are taking suggestions but i think one on the HRE would be quite interesting, generally of course as in things like the leader of the HREs priorities etc and generally on the habsburgs as a tie in? Id also love more Chinese ones as you never hear anything about them and those videos of yours were great!

[@StrategyStuff]

I do consider suggestions. HRE is something I'll be doing eventually - Thirty Years' War and maybe 'Grand Strategy of the Austrian Empire' (book came out in 2018). I do want to rotate around regions and time periods to give some variety to the content.

[@thrashes6208]

@@FlymanMS how about you then come up with your own ideas then? My simple suggestion was simply something related to the HRE and more Chinese/Asian content. I could of course have named other things like perhaps manifest destiny in practice or WW1 German strategy or whatever (although very overdone). Simply suggestions.

[@FlymanMS]

@@thrashes6208 Sorry my response was to another comment, KZbin messed it up. I am all for more interesting videos on this channel.

[@danielchandler4733]

Excellent work! Thanks very much for the enlightenment.

[@eingew]

I still haven't found an answer to how a Eurasian superstate (or union or whatever) would tackle the problem, that in the end navigation by ship is always cheaper. You don't need to maintain the ocean. The reason why the West is so strong is because we have easily navigable waterways all over the place. Thats true for most EU-countries, it's even more true for the US. Logistics is still the key to the future.

[@kesorangutan6170]

Another great video. Thanks fam

[@MS-pu4js]

It wasn't "westernization" that caused the collapse of tsarist Russia (and later of the USSR), this is an excuse used by tsarist and soviet apologists... It was the same old "springtime of nations", and the wish of people to govern themselves.

[@mephisto2872]

M S That is not why the USSR collapsed. The USSR collapsed because of Yeltzin.

[@ThePrickTrollSpammer]

It was the bolsheviks (of whom a lot weren't really Russians) who caused the collapse

[@UniDeathRaven]

@@mephisto2872 Yeltzin has nothing to do with collapse of Soviet Union. President dont rule over people, elites inside civilizations do. Soviet union ruled by KGB. Closer to 90s, KGB wanted private property to rule over people even harder. This led to collapse of CCCP, nobody from elites wanted to live in that shithole anymore.

[@tijojose7966]

The USSR collapsed because communism is an unmanageable system. It was guaranteed to fail eventually. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJyzeJmKer-SqJY

[@ilFrancotti]

Great video on a very interesting topic.

[@RocketPropelledMexican]

Dugin, what a meme guy

[@FlymanMS]

Marx's crazy cousin.

[@hkgolden955]

you mean Based.

[@c.miller1671]

True, yet he is also scary.

[@saramynar8935]

@@FlymanMS literally not related to marx at all, Dugin is ideologically closer to fascism than marxism

[@hkgolden955]

@HarambeLives23 >imagine being so reddit you can't get a joke

[@pepecanas7023]

Thank you, very informative! Given this was created before Ukraine's war, would like to know if some concepts could be revisited, like that Putin would not embrace eurasianism, because of his pragmatism and domestic constituency. Is this statement still valid?

[@StrategyStuff]

Sorry for the late reply. Well unless we have insider knowledge, it’s probably too early to say that Putin has officially embraced Eurasianism, which is still quite a nebulous term esp in terms of policy. For example, Putins endorsement of expanded-BRICS for cross border trade might seem to fly against Eurasian insularity… but then again, it would also be in line with Neo-Eurasianist global strategy to undermine Atlanticist institutions, which is partly why it’s difficult to judge whether P is Eurasianist absent an official state declaration of policy. Certainly much of Russian justification for the UKR war is not strictly Eurasianist, but just purely nationalist (ie UKR/E UKR is just straight up Russia). Might indicate that the RUS pop still prefers such reasoning over Eurasianism. Whatever his ideological leanings, I think it’s fair to say that Ps policies are certainly trending in a Eurasianist direction. But any movement away from the Western order can be construed as that…

[@Gallalad1]

Well this became EXTREMELY relevant for some reason lol

[@tobago3679]

Great video, tons of very important and interesting terms and ideologies.

[@rezaazlaan2429]

Can you make a video on China/India's contemporary geopolitical strategy!!!

[@kevinelruler]

Excellent content. You deserve more subs.

[@brydenholley1904]

Another interesting video, as always- thanks for sharing. I especially liked some of the criticisms of Atlantic hegemony near the start - I completely agree with many of these.

[@dewetmaartens359]

Please post new videos. I love your content!

[@samdog166]

Also no worries if not, but i think you could do a great video on the Anglosphere

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[@IulianYT]

12:40 -there is a typo, correct spelling is "idiocracy" 😁

[@Bobbleheads56]

Insanely based theory

[@dancingfool111]

Fantastic video! I see you haven't posted in a while. Hopefully you're alright.

[@StrategyStuff]

Hey I’m fine, but as usual I have trouble keeping my schedule or promises. I’ve been partnering with HistoryMarche where I make videos for him, partly to get back in the habit of making videos!

[@dancingfool111]

@@StrategyStuff Good to hear! I just found your channel at the perfect time because I'm writing an essay at school on the Ukrainian war. Do you think "putinism" has aspects of eurasianism?

[@StrategyStuff]

@@dancingfool111 Of course - Putin himself has used the 'Eurasian' term in several initiatives (such as the Eurasian Economic Union). We can also expect Putin to move in a more Eurasianist direction (more focus on ideological opposition to West, more top-down 'masterocracy' in both internal and foreign affairs, more interest in 3rd world alignments). But to an extent that 'Putinism' is even a coherent ideology (rather than an ever-shifting coalition between Russian bureaucracies + oligarchs), it will be a combination of various ideologies, not just Eurasianism (remember that Russian nationalism isn't the same as Eurasianism, as mentioned in the video).

[@dancingfool111]

@@StrategyStuff Thanks for the reply! It's actually a larger study on the war that I'm doing with two of my friends. I'll be focusing more on the ideological standpoint. Do you feel that the Russian attack on Ukraine is motivated precisely by Eurasianism or just "national security" (the Dnepr river being a good strategic defense position) or a combination of both? Of course it's impossible to know what Putin has in mind but I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[@StrategyStuff]

@@dancingfool111 I think the botched initial invasion of Kyiv shows 2 things: 1) P wanted regime change and 2) he did not expect serious resistance from UKR. 2) seems to indicate that RUS didn't really feel any pressing natsec threat from/via UKR. So why the aggression of 1)? This *could* be Eurasianism and certainly it was/is sometimes justified as such (saying UKR not a real state etc). But like most policies, we can only really diagnose P's true intentions long after everything has happened. This attempt to subjugate UKR or worse can be done out of Eurasianism, but it can also be a simple attempt to establish a RUS sphere of influence without any of Dugin's ideological 'baggage'. It could also be simple predation vs a state that P felt was exceptionally weak. Ultimately, the only true answer is the perhaps-unsatisfying 'mix of everything': Eurasianism made P believe RUS and UKR had affinity and so RUS was 'justified' in taking charge; P recognized that economically-weak RUS needs a sphere of influence to be a relevant 'bloc' in today's world; UKR felt like a weak enemy and P believed he could take advantage; and P probably didn't expect major reaction from the West (which was partly because he thought he could quickly smash UKR).

[@LuisAldamiz]

A good extension to this could be a meditation on non-explicit but sometimes obseverd expectations of China being able to take over Russian Siberia (at least East and Central Siberia) would Russia show weakness and would China not need Russia (as it does) for its global geopolitics. Another interesting extension (maybe you already did something on that?) would be the New Silk Road and its Siberian extension favored by the West forcing the hand of Russia on Ukraine and w/ sanctions, forcing Putin to side more strongly with China and look to it as new market for its gas and oil.

[@jakedee4117]

The silk road/belt and road is certainly an important new part of this equation but I don't see China taking over Siberia. There's no point if they pursue closer Eurasian integration. There is nothing in Siberia that China needs and Russia isn't already selling them.

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@jakedee4117 - That was something that was occasionally mentioned, more in the past, more than a decade ago, when Russia was perceived as weaker and more decadent. More recently the USA hinted at that too, as if inviting China to take half of Russia while the NATO Empire kept the rest for themselves or something in that line. Of course China knows better. Today I'd say that there is fat chance that anyone would take even a square meter from Russia because it's clear that they are in much better shape (they have the real value: essential commodities, a strong military, a very strong nuclear arsenal, and a relatively strong industry, soon even a ruble-centered financial sphere that nobody will be able to disdain anymore) and nuclear war is not something anyone would want to risk, right? But Siberia is full of "lebensraum": it has many mineral riches and lots of space still available for potential colonization would a demographically saturated country want to. However right now China prefers to have a close ally in Russia and gets the mineral riches via proxy.

[@tengia7927]

Great video ⬜🟦⬜.

[@chegayvara1136]

Lots of people making fun of Dugin, and yes calling him bombastic may be an understatement. However, Foundations of Geopolitics is increasingly looking like the Kremlin's foreign policy handbook. At what point are we supposed to take it seriously? We have had wars in Georgia and Ukraine, Russian interference in the American election, etc. We have Brexit and numerous European elections coming up, including for the European parliament. Fertile ground for asymmetrical warfare. And for those who don't want to give Russia too much credit (pointing out domestic reasons for Trumps elections etc), that's entirely valid. It's also delusional to pretend Russia is idle or incompetent if you are an "atlanticist". It's like arguing about the species of a bird, after it's already shat on your head.

[@FlymanMS]

Yep, delusioned conspiracy theorists like you use Dugin as another boogieman. You make him seem like a big and influential figure while in fact he is no more than an odiouse theorist with small following, and Russia is much more pragmatic in its foreign policy. But sure, blame it on Russians, it's the easy way. Why admitting your own mistakes and fixing your ways when you could justify any BS with conspiracy theories.

[@chegayvara1136]

@@FlymanMS Not sure exactly what you're trying to say as I did not mention any conspiracies. If you strip away the bizarre personal views of Dugin the strategy outlined relies heavily on 19th century concepts of the world island upon which a good chunk of pragmatic realpolitik is based, and is still taught in universities and military academies. I only bring up Dugin specifically as he is mentioned in the video, bu there are many more reputable theorists from around the world with similar central theses. Do I believe Putin or anyone else in the Kremlin cares about Dugin personally, have read his book or draw from that specific work wholly and solely? Of course not. A good portion of Russian doctrine and actions happen to overlap with what Dugin has written, as well as what Mahan had written, and strategies developed by Gerasimov and other Russian generals and statesmen. That's what my last comment on bird shit was about.

[@Mixcoatl]

I do wish people would stop associating Brexit with "dA rUsSiAnS". Euroscepticism didn't begin in 2016. Britain has always been ambivalent towards Europe. And Russia doesn't give a damn whether the UK is in the EU anyway. They're far more interested in NATO, of which the UK is still a member.

[@chegayvara1136]

@@Mixcoatl I didn’t mean to imply Russia somehow caused brexit, but are able to exploit preexisting divisions in Britain and other countries. If anything a stronger EU is in Russia’s interest to a point as a more United Europe makes NATO (and the Americans) less useful to the Europeans. Even a untied European army would still be weaker than NATO

[@matteoperri1687]

This stuff is awesome!

[@D3cyTH3r]

"All your base are belong to us"

[@justoguillermomontoya3821]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@REgamesplayer]

I have to agree with other people in comments thinking that this is merely over complex way of blaming others for their own issues. Furthermore, its logic is lax. It is inconsistent and prone to excuses. For starters, I disagree that environment forms character to a degree which is portrayed here. This is proven by different cultures developing different views despite living in similar conditions. For example, Poland and Lithuania had drifted from earliest day from the Russia despite having very similar environment to live in. Or various people like in India, Africa, America, Spain developing completely different mindsets despite similar ecological and environmental conditions. As a nail to the coffin for first Eurasianism principle, Russia is not by any stretch of imagination unified in its environmental characteristics. it is a massive nation stretching over massively different environments. Heck, you cannot say that Russia is unified by cold, because people living next to Black sea enjoys warmer winters than the most Russians and intermediate states like Polish-Lithuanian civilization.

[@StrategyStuff]

I think commenters here may have over-emphasized the geographic aspect of cultural formation. 'Mestorazvitie' has as its starting point geographic factors, BUT the idea also encompasses the people-to-people interactions that have occurred in such an area. So when we think about Russia and Poland, Classical Eurasianists would say that despite the fact that they were both living in roughly the same biomes, through their interactions with different peoples, they drifted into different mestorazvities and therefore formed different peoples. Then that brings in the question of how 'mestorazvities' are defined and so on, which results in the same arbitrariness that you have mentioned in your comment.

[@REgamesplayer]

@@StrategyStuffBut at this point the entire idea loses its principal worth. IF said people can drift over time through their interactions with other people, this means that geographical constrains plays a minor role at best. Even when it comes to minor aspects like national character, it is prone to change regardless of environment which in the end results in situation where supposedly "common" people do not share identical values. This then comes down to dividing people upon ideas which cannot function properly in reality. A common trend among Russian thinkers admittedly, seeing as how they just came out of communism. This is seen at Euroasians suggested divide. N.American taking S.America? Really? Russia and Slav-like people there having common future with Asia? Really? They could not be more different. Same ridiculous idea is extended to Africa as it is simply incompactible with our value system and the only practical interaction which we Europeans want to have with that region is domination (neo-colonism) and tourism. While I agree with the need for a nation to protect its national identity and core values of the people in order for government to remain legitimate in the eyes of the people. I also agree that Anglo-Saxon cultures do have tendency to divide and conquer. They strive for domination of other regions by imposing their own values and plunging nations into civil discord and through ensuring chaos putting themselves ahead. Yet as the whole, these ideas are ill-thought out and does not stand to academic scrutiny at its core claims.

[@zeljosarajevic]

What about the influence of non-alligned movement for soviet expansion? Wasnt that a turning point that halted the cold war, or it was just a break in momentum for euroasian dominance? Based on your perspective, non-alligned movement benefited west more than it did for Soviets, because, eventually, non-alligned countries were sucked into democratic power vacuum and most of them became third world coontries from western perspective, while others served as and still are, a buffer to fight for, like Ukraine. Amazing video btw!

[@kyjo72682]

Yeah.. what you describe seems more like Russian and Soviet imperialism than "Eurasiansim".

[@bukovinian]

Have you listened to Dugin? Thats basically what it is.

[@SovietUnion100]

"Soviet imperialism" is an oxymoron that only exists in the minds of western imperialists. Communism is literally anti imperialist you idiot.

[@kyjo72682]

​@@SovietUnion100 If you believe official Soviet propaganda - then yes. In reality: no. Soviet Union was as much imperialist, if not more so, than all the other imperial powers. It was a direct successor to the Russian Empire which has been expanding across Eurasia for several hundered years up to the point of bolshevik revolution. It has used a different ideology to control stuff, but it was still very much imperialist.

[@bukovinian]

@@SovietUnion100 lol it's not Empire, just want Global domination of communism, with centeral government in Moscow. Just because you change up a name doesn't change what happens in reality. It was also Stalin who destroyed Soviet Union, by killing farmers, then in the 80s when kolhoz wasn't able to produce much, food markets were essentially empty. Such a failure

[@polako7370]

Bro is the same as american imperialism but you see it diffrent because western perspective, but, here in latinoamerica you can clearly see its consecuences, 30 years ago usa sponsored dictatorships that forcefully implemented neoliberalism and destroyed fundamental cultural and social aspects of latinoamerican tradition and society

[@c.simmons2147]

Eurasianism: Civilizations derive values from the unique aspects of their environment and one set of values from one area cannot necessarily translate to others. Also Eurasianism: These four unique environments all have the same values and thus should be one civilization called Eurasia.

[@chalgoode6449]

This video does an excellent job at explaining why Africans need to DIVERGE from ALL Eurasians (Both Europeans and Asians alike), IMMEDIATELY.

[@adityanawani8134]

Chal Goode 😀😀😀

[@chalgoode6449]

@@adityanawani8134 ew...

[@adityanawani8134]

Chal Goode 🤔🤔🤔

[@adityanawani8134]

Chal Goode Why the ew?

[@chalgoode6449]

😂😂😀🙃

[@philmccormick7435]

Good day Sir. Did your research into Eurasianism uncover any relationship towards Latin America?

[@StrategyStuff]

Not really. Most studies of Eurasianism come from the “Russia and post-Soviet Space” political angle, so there’s not much focus on more distant parts of the world. Now that u mention it, not much focus on Eurasianism’s relationship with India too...

[@dinodonut5776]

I can understand a Eurasianist argument on how the geographic borders of the continent form a natural Eurasian block. But the cultural argument? Surely orthodox Russians have far more in common with Europeans, and Muslim Turkic peoples more in common with other central Asian and middle eastern peoples, than they do with each other. The USSR would not have had to so thoroughly suppress central asian culture if they were so comparable, and the central Asian states wouldn’t have wanted to break away so desperately.

[@StrategyStuff]

Well culturally, Russia has a long history of identity struggle regarding whether it is actually “Asiatic” or “European” (partly cause intellectuals were always disappointed by how RUS measured up to EUR standards). Simplest example is in “War and Peace” where the tension between the surface level Europeanism of the aristocrats (ie speaking French) sits uneasily with their suppressed real selves (like when Natasha instinctively knows how to dance like a peasant). Same with Russian nationalist music (Mussorgsky, Rimsky Korsakov etc). So as far as Russian intelligentsia were concerned, it’s not all clear that Russia should really see itself as Western: and for many Eurasianists it’s this hankering for European culture/standards that has brought disaster (Western ideals of progress leading to adoption of Communism/Capitalism etc)

[@Noleme]

Heeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy, anyone else decide to rewatch some Strategy Stuff after taking a peek at the news in the last month?

[@Nabuuug]

As you explained, the enormous blind spot in this anti-western strategy is economic performance and enrichment which are precisely the foundation of western influence. I'm amazed how these eurasianists don't even think about this as an essential issue (I guess they're framing enrichment as a "western value", lol).

[@StrategyStuff]

Eurasianists believe that without spirituality, Western materialism is ultimately self-defeating. The Neo-Eurasianist Panarin, in particular, argued that underdevelopment is actually a good thing, since it allows Eurasia to learn from Western failures and construct a society that avoids exploitative Labor relations, wastage of human potential, and ecocide.

[@Nabuuug]

@@StrategyStuffMy jaw just dropped. Wow, but it actually comes to a point where if the West would strategically want to remain prominent and powerful relative to Eurasia, it should just seek to promote this Neo-Eurasianism nonsense over there to keep those nations' economies down.

[@corvon7410]

The video says that when Western values come to other countries, they just become oligarchies that siphon resources from the country and redirect them to the West, and countries become even poorer and lose population. (see Ukraine, Russia in the 90s, Azerbaijan) But do not take Dugin's Eurasianism seriously. He is a marginal about which almost no one in Russia knows nothing, and those who know ridicule him. I don't know why he's so popular in the West.

[@waspwarrior1917]

wonderful presentation and video

[@zavi13]

So this is basically Putin's ideological outlook, and backs up what he is trying to do in the Ukraine now.

[@platoscavealum902]

🇺🇦

[@everythingintheuniverse8962]

@@platoscavealum902 FASCIST GOVERNMENT

[@youtubeuser206]

actually it perfectly describes what the west has been trying to do in ukraine since the 1990s and most especially since the coup detat and western instigated Ukrainian civil war in 2014. russia is merely ending the now 8 year old war.

[@johnau5525]

Thank you for explaining a very difficult subject.

[@FOLIPE]

The idea that the South must forever depend or be connected to their immediate north is absurd. Oceans also connect places, and so South America and Africa, Europe and North America, Africa and South Asia, for example, can, will and have had long meaningful relations with one another.

[@FOLIPE]

@Gery A Funny how that used to be said about East Asia less than 100 years ago too.

[@g.araujo1043]

@Gery A Are you ready to welcome your chinese overlords ?

[@skepticmonkey6923]

They are dependent because of imperialism and neo-colonialism, its not absurd.

[@Livinivs]

Love this channel, so happy I found it Btw, maybe you should look into collaborating with CaspianReport at some point...

[@ernststravoblofeld]

It's interesting that if you extend this geographic area a little farther into China and Korea, you find a very particular style of ancient archery equipment, and a rather specific style of drop spindle for pre-spinning-wheel spinning of yarn.

[@IBlackyl]

Well 22:45 Russia declared in 2023 that Eurasianism is now, indeed, Part of Russian Foreign Policy.

[@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462]

At it's core it's not really even about nationalism or ideology it's just land power v sea power.

[@balderbrok6438]

Or, put in other words, "eternal Rome vs eternal Carthage" Though his perennialism is just as much a core element of Dugin's thought specifically, it's not like that is in any way in conflict with his eurasianism.

[@anon2034]

Great work!